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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
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Epitome.
Hongkong Legislative Council
The Typhoon.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 1st OCTOBER, 1906,
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.'
H.E. Chou Fu, the new Viceroy, is not expected to arrive at Canton before the end of October.
The Norddeutscher Lloyd have given Mks, 209 6 000, (in aid of the sufferers by the recent
typhoon in Honfikong.
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It is estimated that the recent typhoon in 205 Hongkong will cost London anderwriters
upwards of £1,000,000.
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Leading Articles :-
Trade with Korea and Manchuria
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The Position in Korea
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China's Ineffectual Army Reform.
The Observatory Enquiry
Disarmament Ideals .....
Missionary Jubilee at Canton
Sequels of the Typhoon
The Shanghai Shooting Case
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Correspondence
Ocean Liners and Macao... KERA Fifty Years in China
Civil Service Cricket Club
Craigengower Cricket Club
Hongkong Cricket League
Kowloon Cricket Club
Hongkong Football Club...........
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St. Andrew's Society
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Supreme Court
The "Open Door" in Korea.........
Canton
Macao
Hongkong Cricket Club ........................
Companies.-
The Douglas Steamship Co., Ld.
The Yokohams Specie Banks Ld.....ndioz. Osaka Shosen Kaisha, Ld.
Hongkong Typhoon Relief Fund
Big Shipment of Wheat for Hongkong
Chinese Army Centralization.... Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
Electric tramways are to be commenced in 212 French Shanghai at the beginning of the New 212 Year. Material is now being purchased in .213 France.
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The latest conspiracy of Sun Yat-sen and his 217 dwindling band is not regarded very seriously by the Chinese authorities. Those arrested always promptly betray the others.
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The Governor of Honan has memorialized 218 Peking complaining that the stones sunk to buttress the pillars of the Yellow River bridge are likely to divert the course of the river.
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The schedule of the Hongkong Horticultural So iety has been issued, announcing that the 220 exhibition is to be held in the latter part of 221 February, 1907. The secretary, Mr. F.Howell .221 invites suggestions.
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An official investigation on behalf of the 324 French authorities, touching the treatment of
ooolies on the Yunnan railway, has been made and the charges published, which we disbelieved at the time, have been refuted.
The China Times says that the late Mr. Louis a tool rather than an adviser" of Spitzel was On September 15th, at Shanghai, ROBERT Li Hung-chang. He was not locally regarded as an authority on things Chinese, but was con- sidered a clever business man and a "good fellow.",
On September 28th, at Goodwood, Babington Path, Mrs. H. A. LAMMHET, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
PERCY, TILLEY to ROSE EMILY, eldest daughter of the late FREDERICK CLIFTON, of Shanghai.
On September 15th, at Shanghai, ALFRED E. C. DEACON, Engineer Commander, E.N., to JE8812 RAINE THOMPSON of Bedford, England.
On September 17th, at Shanghai, WILLIAM HUNTER, shipmaster, of Monifieth, Scotland, to HELIN GRACE BLACK of Cortachy, Scotland.
On September 18th, at Shanghai, the Rev. ALBERT HERMAN BUTZBACH, of Ch'enchoufu, to
Miss LORA CATHARINE MINCH, of Hooppole, Illinois, U.S.A., and the Bev. ERNEST KELHOFER, of Ch'enchoufu, to Miss MARY ELLEN BRAUN, of Créditon, Ontaria, Canada.
DEATHS,
On September 8th, at Swatow, Martha EdITH,
the beloved wife of FRANK MCLAVY, I. M. Customs, aged 39 years.
On September 20th, at Maco, LIBANIA MABIA, the beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joss Da SILVA of Macao,
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18 8.8 Mongolia bhas really been refloate be on kong agent of th aci o ail 8.8 C kindly advise. 1 that he s in receipt f information from the Shanghai Agent that the 8.8 Mongolia was floated on c'eptember 22nd at 8 o'cloos in the m roin
The Kawasaki dockyards at Kobe have been
busy lately. On the 18th inst they launched the Woo-liny, a handsome triple-deck river steamer; and on the 20th they launched the t.b.d. dzuki, the last of five sister boats ordered by the Japanese government.
marvelled at the number of coolies blocking Visitors to the Harbour Office on Sept. 25th
the entrance. They were seeking passages to Mexion, and became such a naisanos that the Assistant Harbour Master, Mr. Jones, bad to engage police to keep them in order.
The Spanish steamer N. S. del Rosario, lying aahore at Yaumati bay, together with her she
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The Chino-Russian Conference concerning Manchurian Affairs was reopened at the Waiwupu on the afternoon of the 16th instant. M. Pokotiloff, the Russian Representative, and their Excellencies Tang Shao-yi and Lien Fang, the Chinese Representatives, were all present.
M. Feit, Acting Consul-General for France at Shanghai, has transmitted to Captain Bagot. Duvauroux commanding the flotilla at Hongkong Fronde the condolences of the consular staff and and to Captain Saintseine of the destroyer the French community in the losses they have sustained in the typhoon.
United States Court at Shanghai, obtained his Dr. F. E. Hinckley, the new olerk of the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Columbis University. He has written a work on American Consular Jurisdiction in the Orient, having made a special study of the matter for several years. His large knowledge of this subject gave him the opportunity to be selected as clerk of the new court at Shanghai, of which Judge Wildey, formerly of Manila, is judge.
The directors of the Fatshan-Samshui Rail- way are considering means to repair that line, but the cost will amount to $1,060,000 and they are discouraged. They will try to repair it in small sections and finish the whole work that way. The result of such tactics can be easily foreseen and would result in serious damage, says the Canton Daily News. The Yuet Han Railway Co. is trying to purchase the railway and has asked Viceroy Shum to delegaté a person who will appraise it.
For some time past the Shanghai agents of the Norddeutscher Lloyd Company have found that their mail and passenger tender Bremen was not sufficiently large to cope with the ever- increasing passenger traffic of the Company's mail steamers, and an order was, therefore, placed with the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ld., for the construction of a much larger tender, to be called the Bremen. The new Bremen is completed and the naming ceremony took place on Sept. 20th in brilliant weather at the Company's Pootung Works.
The Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai evidently thinks that the foreign Consuls in some of the Treaty Ports have taken unto themselves greater power," than' that which is generally assigned to Consuls in other countries. They decide questions which require higher than Consular authorities
of power and dispensation of justice by the to pronounce judgment on. To remedy this evil, which interferes greatly with the exercising Chinese Government, the Viceroy of Chili has instructed four mandarins, all graduated law students from Japan, to examine into the proper scope of the Consular authority with a view to curbing their excessive power.
Hongkong Weekly Press. Stings, was on Sept. 28th offered for sale, as alie British Fost-office, mails will be carried to Japan, d
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES Vœux ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131 FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.,
The German Mail of August' 28th ́`arrived, per the-88. Prins Ludwig, on Tuesday, the 25th ultimo; and the French Mail of August 31st arrived, per the sé. Tourane, to day.
lay, by Messrs. Hughesland Hough, sustioners, acting under instructions from Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Co. A purchaser was found in Mr. Leun Tai whose bid was $3,936,
It is proposed to hold a Volunteer Camp in the New Territory, at some convenient time during the coming cold weather. H.E. the Governor is of opinion that the most suitable site for this camp is near Fauling, distant from Hongkong about 23 miles in which case it would be desirable and necessary that the majority of attending members be in a position to be absent from Hongkong for 4 full days.
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Under a mail contract just completed with the and China via Canada, in much less time that hitherto. As result of adding two fast new steamers, the Empress of Britain and Empress of Ireland to its Atlantic service, the Canadian Pacific Railway will for the first time carry mails in its own steamers and trains ́Alt the way from Great Britain to Hongkong The time occupied from London to Hongkong will be 294 days; to Shanghai, 27ĝidays; and to Yokohama, 224 days Compared with the company's previons, contract, this means saving of days to Hongkong, 84 days to Shanghai, and 83 days to Yokohama,
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